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Special Educational Needs

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children with special educational needs have been educated at special schools in each year since 2003. [115127]

Mr. Dhanda: The information requested is shown in the tables.

Special schools: Number and percentage of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), position as at January each year, 2003 to 2006, England
Pupils with statements( 1)
Total pupils in maintained special schools( 2) Total pupils in non-maintained special schools
Total pupils in all schools( 3) Number Percentage( 4) Number Percentage

2003

250,550

85,800

34.2

4,840

1.9

2004

247,590

84,250

34.0

4,700

1.9

2005

242,580

83,290

34.3

4,740

2.0

2006

236,750

82,570

34.9

4,660

2.0


Pupils with SEN without statements( 1)
Pupils in maintained special schools( 5) Total pupils in non-maintained special schools
Total pupils in all schools( 3) Number Percentage Number Percentage

2003

1,169,780

1,890

0.2

40

0.0

2004

1,197,490

1,800

0.1

30

0.0

2005

1,230,800

1,750

0.1

40

0.0

2006

1,293,248

1,690

0.1

60

0.4

(1) Excludes dually registered pupils.
(2) Includes general hospital schools.
(3) Includes pupils with statements in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools, special schools, pupil referral units, independent schools, city technology colleges and academies.
(4) The number of pupils with statements in special schools expressed as a proportion of the number of pupils with statements in all schools.
(5) Excludes general hospital schools. Data for pupils with SEN without statements is not collected from these schools.
Note:
Totals have been rounded to the nearest 10.

St. Peter's College, Chelmsford

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of recent changes in educational standards at St. Peter’s College, Chelmsford. [114840]

Jim Knight: St. Peter’s College in Chelmsford was made subject to special measures in September 2005. Its progress is therefore monitored by Ofsted on a termly basis. The College has had three such monitoring visits, the most recent in November 2006. On each visit it was judged that satisfactory progress was being made.

Sure Start

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what representations he has
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received relating to the National Audit Office’s report on Sure Start Children’s Centres; [113916]

(2) what response he has made to the National Audit Office’s report on Sure Start Children’s Centres. [113915]

Beverley Hughes: I have received no representations relating to the National Audit Office’s report on Sure Start Children’s Centres. I welcome the report’s confirmation that children’s centres are successfully improving services for families with young children and that families value children’s centres services. We have already addressed the report’s main recommendations through issuing revised practice, planning and performance management guidance for local authorities and centres. In addition “Together for Children”, the consortium appointed to support local authorities during the children’s centre roll-out, have produced a toolkit which features advice and case studies on reaching families at greatest risk of social exclusion. We continue to consider what further action is needed to address other issues raised in the report.

Teaching Staff: Coventry

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff were employed in Coventry local education authority schools in each year since 1992. [115476]

Jim Knight [holding answer 17 January 2007]: The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff employed in local authority maintained schools in Coventry local authority, January 1992 to 2006.

Full-time equivalent number of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff employed in maintained schools in Coventry local authority, January 1992 to 2006
As at January each year: Teachers( 1) Teaching assistants( 2) Support staff( 2, 3)

1992

—

270

740

1993

2,820

210

750

1994

2,860

390

(4)790

1995

2,780

390

(4)820

1996

2,790

380

(4)940

1997

2,800

390

990

1998

2,780

440

1,040

1999

2,810

440

1,070

2000

2,800

670

1,170

2001

2,870

820

1,350

2002

2,920

690

1,560

2003

2,910

640

1,610

2004

2,920

740

1,630

2005

2,910

770

1,760

2006

2,980

770

1,960

(1) DfES annual survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies (618 g).
(2) Annual School Census.
(3) Support staff figures include teaching assistants numbers.
(4) Does not include data for pupil referral units.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

Truancy: London

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the rate of truancy in each
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London borough was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [115983]

Jim Knight: The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream schools in London boroughs are given in the following table.

Half days missed in maintained mainstream primary schools( 1) in London boroughs due to unauthorised absence
Percentage
Local authority 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Barking and Dagenham

1.52

1.37

1.34

1.27

1.22

Barnet

0.64

0.56

0.65

0.74

0.54

Bexley

0.36

0.35

0.33

0.44

0.54

Brent

0.49

0.41

0.55

0.54

0.59

Bromley

0.40

0.43

0.60

0.53

0.67

Camden

1.10

0.77

0.56

0.57

0.60

Croydon

0.55

0.69

0.73

0.63

0.66

Ealing

0.25

0.22

0.27

0.26

0.32

Enfield

1.11

1.11

0.81

0.75

0.71

Greenwich

1.38

1.45

1.24

1.16

1.33

Hackney

1.36

1.36

1.16

1.04

1.12

Hammersmith and Fulham

0.61

0.76

0.70

0.62

0.75

Haringey

1.62

1.39

1.13

1.21

1.08

Harrow

0.32

0.21

0.17

0.14

0.17

Havering

0.21

0.24

0.22

0.27

0.31

Hillingdon

0.71

0.67

0.58

0.55

0.59

Hounslow

1.03

1.19

1.16

1.08

1.10

Islington

1.20

1.26

0.96

0.81

0.72

Kensington and Chelsea

0.89

0.59

0.40

0.35

0.46

Kingston upon Thames

0.25

0.22

0.23

0.29

0.24

Lambeth

1.07

1.07

0.97

1.01

0.99

Lewisham

1.35

1.06

0.97

1.09

1.11

London, City of

0.32

0.00

0.29

0.03

0.03

Merton

0.38

0.35

0.33

0.39

0.27

Newham

1.53

1.04

0.71

0.76

0.89

Redbridge

0.76

0.77

0.77

0.80

0.93

Richmond upon Thames

0.27

0.32

0.35

0.44

0.53

Southwark

1.78

1.74

1.61

1.34

1.23

Sutton

0.41

0.26

0.31

0.37

0.50

Tower Hamlets

1.38

1.20

1.19

1.22

1.24

Waltham Forest

0.53

0.54

0.68

0.53

0.64

Wandsworth

0.56

0.58

0.57

0.57

0.62

Westminster, City of

0.77

0.62

0.51

0.68

0.87

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